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I've been 'volunteered' (welcome to China!) to run a weekly lunchtime English corner, something I've never seen or done before, and am not sure about the best way to do this. I'm in a largish high tech company and the language levels here vary from Chi-Eng translators down to nearly zero oral Englis...

you just have to get them to understand the idea of voicing. (using "f", "v" and/or "s" "z"--they can put their hands on their necks and feel the difference.) This makes sense to me. I'll try this out next class and let you know if this worked or not. Thanks very much to both respondents for your i...

Hi Lorikeet, FWIW s or sh is not a problem here. I live in Sh anghai. What happens is that they try to fudge the sound for 'usually' by using their lips and not their tongue. So, the sound is 'uwually'. Obviously the answer is to get them to use their tongue. I haven't been successful thus far, so t...

Hi, I'm teaching adults in a business environment who are intermediate to advanced (CET 4-8 in PR China). But, I'm stumped trying to find/devise a good strategy for teaching the second syllable pronunciation in 'usually' - similarly for 'casually', 'pleasure'. I can't type phonetics here, so to try ...